Description
Book SynopsisMichael Guasco traces the broad spectrum of ways slavery shaped the way Englishmen and Anglo-Americans thought about and interacted with the world even before the rise of plantation-based economies.
Trade Review"Guasco has done terrific work here, laying a strong foundation for future research. . . . A welcome addition to the literature on American slavery." *
American Historical Review *
"A stimulating book. . . . Guasco presents a gamut of events and institutions that rendered slavery familiar to the English within and without." *
Journal of Southern History *
"With an admirable global perspective and a breathtaking array of sources, Michael Guasco recasts the history of the English experience with slavery." * Alison Games, Georgetown University *
Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Problem of Slavery in Pre-Plantation America
Chapter 1. The Nature of a Slave: Human Bondage in Early Modern England
Chapter 2. Slaves the World Over: Early English Encounters with Slavery
Chapter 3. Imaginary Allies: Englishmen and Africans in Spain's Atlantic World
Chapter 4. Englishmen Enslaved: The Specter of Slavery in the Mediterranean and Beyond
Chapter 5. "As Cheap as Those Negroes"? Transplanting Slavery in Anglo-America
Chapter 6. Slavery before "Slavery" in Pre-Plantation America
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
